You learn the hard way. That’s the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they’re doing. – Cameron Dallas When we last left off we
Year: 2023
There are too many tragedies
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert F. Kennedy Since murders, and particularly murder-suicides,
The silence of the progressive lambs
The temper of the multitude is fickle. ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Though we’ll be specifically discussing Elgin, Illinois, that microcosmic reality readily applies to any major
Campaigning 101 – Campaigning ain’t what it used to be! – part one
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. – Confucius Ah yes! It’s late springtime when the Midwestern weather finally rises above the freezing
On the death of Ted Kaczynski
I believe in nothing. – Ted Kaczynski I rarely set out to violate my former newspaper editor Rick Nagel’s caution against turning inward for a
The worst board member in Kane County history!
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — often attributed to Abraham Lincoln If I
The Elgin Poet Laureate Program explained!
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. – Hanlon’s Razor I have to admit I came within millimeters of trampling all
The Elgin Cultural Arts Commission has to go!
I thought I’d seen some semblance of everything this existence has to offer – good and bad. But watching Elgin poet laureate Gareth Mann single-handedly
ChatGPT is a fascinating proposition!
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines. — Claude Shannon I
Suicide isn’t painless
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. – Phil Donahue Though I’m sure you’ve already determined the catalyst for this column, with the